A good friends sends this link about how arbitration left a bad taste in Trevor Bauer‘s mouth:
“They spent the last 10 minutes of the case trying a character-assassination,” Bauer said. “I learned that giving to charity is a bad thing. I learned that agreeing with someone on a podcast just for the sake of argument that I was worth $10.5 million, and should be the definitive answer why I’m not worth $13 [million].”
What else did they say?USAToday.com
“Basically, that I’m a terrible human being,” Bauer said, “which was interesting on their part. I thought that giving to charity, especially because they didn’t mention it was a charitable campaign, just mentioned the name.”
Bauer would have felt even worse if he lost. In general, this is why both players and teams should avoid the hearings. It is in the best interest of the team to paint the player in as negative a light as possible. Most of the time that happens, it’s between the agent and the team. The agent serves as the buffer so the the player doesn’t hear the negatives coming from the other side. These hearings are tough on egos.
from baseballmusings.com http://bit.ly/2BA5DP0
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